Patrick Kück

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Patrick Kück is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Kück has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Kück's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (13 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (8 papers). Patrick Kück is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (13 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (8 papers). Patrick Kück collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Patrick Kück's co-authors include Karen Meusemann, Gary C. Longo, Bernhard Misof, Torsten H. Struck, Björn M. von Reumont, Johann Wolfgang Wägele, Christian Groß, Johannes Dambach, J. Wolfgang Wägele and Heike Hadrys and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Molecular Biology and Evolution and BMC Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Kück

18 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

FASconCAT-G: extensive functions for multiple sequence alignment preparations concerning phylogenetic studies

2014 415 citations Patrick Kück, Gary C. Longo Frontiers in Zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Kück Germany	14	817	799	631	513	346	19	2.0k
Natalie Van Houtte Belgium	12	887 1.1×	729 0.9×	852 1.4×	813 1.6×	318 0.9×	31	2.4k
Kipling Will United States	17	1.0k 1.3×	744 0.9×	977 1.5×	839 1.6×	485 1.4×	75	2.4k
Heike Hadrys Germany	23	826 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	918 1.8×	277 0.8×	53	2.8k
A.J. de Winter Netherlands	9	944 1.2×	749 0.9×	834 1.3×	868 1.7×	397 1.1×	38	2.4k
Jan Pinceel Belgium	8	922 1.1×	731 0.9×	890 1.4×	866 1.7×	362 1.0×	10	2.4k
Daniel P. Duran United States	9	882 1.1×	701 0.9×	844 1.3×	984 1.9×	511 1.5×	28	2.5k
Mark J. Blacket Australia	25	551 0.7×	561 0.7×	727 1.2×	879 1.7×	530 1.5×	72	2.0k
Anabela Cardoso Spain	12	1.0k 1.2×	607 0.8×	936 1.5×	1.0k 2.0×	414 1.2×	21	2.6k
Björn M. von Reumont Germany	21	515 0.6×	601 0.8×	778 1.2×	374 0.7×	360 1.0×	34	1.7k
Shannon M. Hedtke Australia	15	968 1.2×	542 0.7×	709 1.1×	393 0.8×	561 1.6×	32	1.9k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Kück, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Unraveling myriapod evolution: sealion, a novel quartet-based approach for evaluating phylogenetic uncertainty. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 7(1). lqaf018–lqaf018.

Kück, Patrick, et al.. (2022). Pitfalls of the site-concordance factor (sCF) as measure of phylogenetic branch support. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(3). lqac064–lqac064. 4 indexed citations

Kück, Patrick, Mark Wilkinson, Christian Groß, Peter G. Foster, & Johann Wolfgang Wägele. (2017). Can quartet analyses combining maximum likelihood estimation and Hennigian logic overcome long branch attraction in phylogenomic sequence data?. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0183393–e0183393. 2 indexed citations

Kück, Patrick & J. Wolfgang Wägele. (2015). Plesiomorphic character states cause systematic errors in molecular phylogenetic analyses: a simulation study. Cladistics. 32(4). 461–478. 9 indexed citations

Struck, Torsten H., Anja Golombek, Lars Hering, et al.. (2014). Platyzoan Paraphyly Based on Phylogenomic Data Supports a Noncoelomate Ancestry of Spiralia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(7). 1833–1849. 134 indexed citations

Kück, Patrick, et al.. (2014). AliGROOVE – visualization of heterogeneous sequence divergence within multiple sequence alignments and detection of inflated branch support. BMC Bioinformatics. 15(1). 294–294. 144 indexed citations

Kück, Patrick & Gary C. Longo. (2014). FASconCAT-G: extensive functions for multiple sequence alignment preparations concerning phylogenetic studies. Frontiers in Zoology. 11(1). 81–81. 415 indexed citations breakdown →

Christa, Gregor, et al.. (2014). Phylogenetic evidence for multiple independent origins of functional kleptoplasty in Sacoglossa (Heterobranchia, Gastropoda). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 15(1). 23–36. 43 indexed citations

Misof, Bernhard, Karen Meusemann, Björn M. von Reumont, et al.. (2014). A priori assessment of data quality in molecular phylogenetics. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 9(1). 11 indexed citations

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Misof, Bernhard, et al.. (2013). Selecting informative subsets of sparse supermatrices increases the chance to find correct trees. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(1). 348–348. 71 indexed citations

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Kück, Patrick & Torsten H. Struck. (2013). BaCoCa – A heuristic software tool for the parallel assessment of sequence biases in hundreds of gene and taxon partitions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 70. 94–98. 110 indexed citations

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Kück, Patrick, Christoph Mayer, Johann‐Wolfgang Wägele, & Bernhard Misof. (2012). Long Branch Effects Distort Maximum Likelihood Phylogenies in Simulations Despite Selection of the Correct Model. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36593–e36593. 68 indexed citations

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Kück, Patrick, Carola Greve, Bernhard Misof, & France Gimnich. (2012). Automated Masking of AFLP Markers Improves Reliability of Phylogenetic Analyses. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49119–e49119. 13 indexed citations

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Kück, Patrick, Francisco Hita Garcia, Bernhard Misof, & Karen Meusemann. (2011). Improved Phylogenetic Analyses Corroborate a Plausible Position of Martialis heureka in the Ant Tree of Life. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21031–e21031. 28 indexed citations

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Kück, Patrick, Karen Meusemann, Johannes Dambach, et al.. (2010). Parametric and non-parametric masking of randomness in sequence alignments can be improved and leads to better resolved trees. Frontiers in Zoology. 7(1). 10–10. 187 indexed citations

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Meusemann, Karen, Björn M. von Reumont, Sabrina Simon, et al.. (2010). A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Arthropod Tree of Life. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(11). 2451–2464. 267 indexed citations

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Kück, Patrick & Karen Meusemann. (2010). FASconCAT: Convenient handling of data matrices. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56(3). 1115–1118. 415 indexed citations

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Letsch, Harald, Patrick Kück, Roman R. Stocsits, & Bernhard Misof. (2010). The Impact of rRNA Secondary Structure Consideration in Alignment and Tree Reconstruction: Simulated Data and a Case Study on the Phylogeny of Hexapods. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(11). 2507–2521. 47 indexed citations

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Letsch, Harald, Carola Greve, Patrick Kück, et al.. (2009). Simultaneous alignment and folding of 28S rRNA sequences uncovers phylogenetic signal in structure variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53(3). 758–771. 16 indexed citations

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